by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner
Readers, who have watched my three Youtube videos on Campeche, may remember that Ana Rojas and I stumbled into a Maya district administration town, which had changed very little in a thousand years. It was named Xculoc and completely unknown to tourists.
The town plan and residential architecture was identical the Eastwood Town Site here in the Nacoochee Valley. Archaeologist Robert Wauchope excavated Eastwood in 1939.
In 1838, English architect, Frederick Catherwood, drew the home of Xculoc’s administrator (mayor) in Pre-Columbian times. Just like the coventos built by the Spanish on the Atlantic Coast in the late 1500s, it had two doors and three rooms!
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